Originally Posted by Trim Stab
Why not just use the control tower?
I'm not sure what your experience has been of being an Aerodrome Controller but at Manch in '72, I found it easier and quicker to get the caravan man to step out with his binos by a nice safe runway than than to sod about moving Control Mobile (God I hated that Morris Minor) out to a suitable safe position to eyeball a DH125 with 2 geeens and a red. OK, I admit it; I should have asked him to fly by the Tower; the spotters would have been thrilled.
